A HOPELESS CASE.
A gentleman on Sheldon-st. thought of having a telephone put into his house, so as to enable him to hold sweet converse with his business partner, but his aged mother protested against it earnestly. " Kobert," she said, *' if you bring one of those dreadful things in here I'll never close my eyes for fear it may break out and sweep us all into eternity, and us not a bit the wiser." He tried to persuade her that it was an innocuous instrument, but she said, " No, no ; look at the thousands and millions of poor Hindoos it killed last Fall." "Why," said he, "that wasn't a telephone — that was a typhoon ;" but the old lady lowered her glasses, and, looking at him over the rims thereof, said he couldn't fool her— that she mightn't know much, perhaps, but she did know that the typhoon was the President of Japan. The gentleman has given it up as a hopeless case. — Chicago Tribune.
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Otago Witness, Issue 1332, 9 June 1877, Page 21
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164A HOPELESS CASE. Otago Witness, Issue 1332, 9 June 1877, Page 21
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